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Just an olfactory experience of rodents.

I am wondering why the name 'Red' seems to keep recurring in the context of problematic private facilities.

ANA at low titre is quite common in healthy people but at higher titres it is very significant and involved in pathology in a range of autoimmune diseases. Thisparticular paper does not seem to me to tell us anything very new or useful. There are lots of ANA patterns.Picking out the most...

As someone involved in medical research administration Fauci would have been encouraged more than I was to extrapolate from his ignorance into making ill-advised statements. Yes, he would have been in error, but then so was I. We thought we knew that there was nothing to see. I think Fauci is...

Fauci may be a powerful ally. Like myself, he was buried in autoimmune disease with major physical signs for decades and like me he probably saw little of ME and formed no clear opinion that there was a real process out there. Now that he is thrown into the middle of 'nondescript' symptoms...

I would agree with that.

I can understand it seems like that but if one considers what the situation would be without lockdown I think the effect on both physical and mental health would be worse. And I think you agree. The virus has made it impossible for us to continue to live and socialise the way we are used to...

I watched about 10minutes. I don't think there is any good evidence for any of the things she is saying I am afraid. I don't think ME has anything to do with inflammation or oxidative stress. The cytokines are all normal and no inflammation shows on tests or imaging. Oxidative stress has never...

I have not looked at Dr Klimas's presentation. I don't think we have evidence for any specific action at present. Aspirin has pros and cons. My understanding is that the stroke risks in the acute Covid illness, not Long Covid. Aspirin has been recommended for people under 65 as a guard against...

I don't see lockdown as awful. What April showed is that you can get the spread down to manageable levels in six weeks. As long as you do not do something really stupid like allowing people to go on aeroplanes or mix in bars it should be possible to get to the situation in Australia and NZ...

Some people seem particularly unable to see what is in front of their nose.Maybe they have been advising the government? Prof Sir Simon Wessely, the director of King’s College London’s health protection research unit in emergency preparedness and response, says there is no right time for a...

Absolutely not. The question depends on the difference between locking down when appropriate and not doing so. If lockdown had been started when appropriate (mid February) there would have been no cases to block hospital beds. There would have been no cases to infect hospital staff so that...

Today's news shows just how ill-informed and misguided this article was. All theoretical models are wrong, some are just less wrong than others. Cast your minds back to March – Professor Neil Ferguson’s, now infamous, estimation of 500,000 deaths had just thrown the Government into disarray...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/30/coronavirus-strain-from-spain-accounts-for-most-uk-cases-study

From what I remember 'misrepresentation' is the way it is defined in law. You can get convicted of it.

OK, I am, sure there are certain economic inconveniences for you too. But the border problem is because other countries failed to introduce restrictions. And you admit that without restrictions you would be overwhelmed with virus. So it seems fairly simple that restrictions are the way to...

This is just political disinformation, like the fake news in the US. The fact is that countries who restricted adequately -NZ, South Korea, Taiwan, etc. have no health or economic problems. Nobody is dying because of lockdown. They are dying because of failure of lockdown in time. There is no...

Sorry, conversations on forums and emails sometimes get too telegrammatic. I was intending to imply that it would be insane to go to a hospital for routine post-cancer follow-up just now - which I think was the context of the previous exchange. I am sure going for scheduled treatment is...

It is interesting that some people are still making this comparison between Covid and flu when there is none. When Patrick Vallance and Chris Whitty initially suggested that the pandemic might not be so different from flu and that 20,000 deaths would not be too bad it confirmed my thought that a...

It worked in the UK in April. London went from 1000 cases day to about 10. Then Grant Shapps told everyone to follow him on holiday to Spain and test and trace was not put in place... You actually need to get to some days with no cases before you want to ease off. In many ways the smaller the...